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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 31: Seeing someone suffering

How compassion differs from personal distress and how to cultivate compassion without falling to apathy.…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 30-2: The bliss of a buddha

The meaning of the term "the bliss of the Buddha." Considering the removal of the…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 30-1: Happiness

Cultivating dissatisfaction with samsara and striving to attain the happiness of the buddhas. How this…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The disadvantages of cyclic existence: Part 2

In-depth teaching on the third through the sixth disadvantage of cyclic existence. This teaching completes…

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A statute of a giant buddha, showing the sky at the background.
Manjushri Winter Retreat 2008-09

Reflecting on dukkha to fuel renunciation

How an awareness of dissatisfaction can fuel the practice, and how silence in retreat is…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 29: Dissatisfaction with samsara

Why bodhisattvas pray for all beings to become dissatisfied with worldly things. The proper type…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 28: Joy in the teachings

Benefiting ourselves by taking joy in others' good qualities, and especially rejoicing at others' joy…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 27: Empty containers

Transforming the appearance of an empty container into the wish that all beings be empty…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 26-3: Reducing jealousy and anger

Reducing anger and jealousy by imagining all other sentient beings being filled with good qualities.

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